JOHN CHEEVER
Scope|Circulating
Books|Critical
Sources|Periodicals, Journals &
Trade Publications|Web Sites
Scope: John Cheever was a New
England author whose works embodied the world of the
“Northeast, upper middle class Protestant.” He was the
author of 180 short stories, 140 of which were published
in The New Yorker Magazine. The 1960’s, World War II,
and The Cold War were backdrops to his fiction. As a
writer for over fifty years, Cheever was the recipient
of many literary awards. One of the major themes in his
works is the conflict between good and evil within the
human heart. He believed the single most important
element to his stories was the characters actions within
“a moral chain of being.” (Gelfant, The Columbia
Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story)
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of John Cheever’s works are listed in the Baddour
Library on-line catalog under Cheever, John and under
individual titles i.e. The stories of John Cheever
Books written by and about John Cheever have the call
number(s) PS3505.H6428
Some representative books from the circulating
collection located upstairs in the library are:
Cheever, John.
The Letters of John Cheever. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1988.
Cheever, John.
The Stories of John Cheever. New York: Knopf, 1978.
Cheever, Susan.
Home Before Dark. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. |
 |
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not
circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following
titles are appropriate for this topic:
REF PS374.S5C47 2000 The Columbia Companion to the
Twentieth-Century American Short Story
REF PN 3321.C7 1993 Critical Survey of Short Fiction
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 102
American Short Story Writers, 1910-1945
PS 21.E537 2004 The Oxford Encyclopedia of American
Literature
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, &
TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list
of full text journals available through our databases
in:
WEB SITES
Literary Resources on the Web
http://www.library.csustan.edu/abuell/litpage.html
Return to
Authors Research Guide
Updated
08/20/2007
|
